Manager BRUCE ALLEN On JON BON JOVI’s Cancelled Vancouver Show – “Believe Me, No Other Date Will Be Announced”

Bruce Allen saw the cancellation of this weekend’s Jon Bon Jovi concert coming and says if he ran City Hall he’d fire the entire Parks Board for even booking the event at Vancouver’s top-ranked Stanley Park, reports Billboard.com. The no-words-barred manager of Bryan Adams and Michael Bublé presented his forceful rant on his Reality Check segment for news-talk radio station CKNW.

The Bon Jovi frontman was set to play Stanley Park August 22nd with his side project Jon Bon Jovi & The Kings Of Suburbia, which he formed in 2012. Promoter Paper Rain has said the concert is postponed. Allen thinks otherwise.

“Anybody who’s been in the business for 20 minutes, knew it from the outset: the Jon Bon Jovi concert was not going to happen,” he says emphatically.

Read more at Billboard.com.

A spokesperson from Bon Jovi Tours Inc. issued a statement about the cancellation of the show, which was on track to sell out.

“The band was ready and willing to give a great performance on Saturday,” the statement reads. “Unfortunately, the local promoter, Paper Rain Performances, has proven unable to guarantee a properly-produced event. … Bon Jovi Tours Inc. shares the disappointment of fans for this cancellation and we are grateful for the city of Vancouver’s support as we tried to keep this concert as scheduled for Saturday.”

Bon Jovi’s “album for fans”, Burning Bridges, will be released on August 21st. A new lyric video for “A Teardrop To The Sea” can be seen below:

Burning Bridges tracklisting:

“A Teardrop To The Sea”
“We Don’t Run”
“Saturday Night Gave Me Sunday Morning”
“We All Fall Down”
“Blind Love”
“Who Would You Die For”
“Fingerprints”
“Life Is Beautiful”
“I’m Your Man”
“Burning Bridges”
“Take Back The Night” (Japan Bonus)

“A Teardrop To The Sea” lyric video:

“Blind Love” lyric video:

“Saturday Night Gave Me Sunday Morning” lyric video:

“We Don’t Run” lyric video:

Bon Jovi are hard at work on their next album, which will see a full-scale release in 2016.

The band kicks off their tour on September 11th in Jakarta, Indonesia, and runs through till October 3rd in Tel Aviv, Israel. Visit BonJovi.com/Tour for all the of the details and ticketing information.